Monroe County Hearth Rescue (MCFR) is teaming up with the Nationwide Hearth Safety Affiliation, the official sponsor of Hearth Prevention Week for greater than 90 years, to advertise this 12 months’s Hearth Prevention Week marketing campaign, “Cost into Hearth Security, Lithium-Ion Batteries in Your House.” The marketing campaign goals to coach youngsters in regards to the potential risks of lithium-ion batteries and educate them how you can play an lively function in staying protected when utilizing or charging on a regular basis gadgets.
MCFR will conduct outreach applications from Oct. 5-11 in seven colleges and daycares inside Monroe County Hearth Rescue’s jurisdiction. The firefighters will educate youngsters about hearth prevention and security suggestions, give them excursions of the hearth vans, and introduce them to a fan favourite, Sparky the Hearth Canine.
“It is a new theme this 12 months,” mentioned Deputy Chief Marcos Osorio. “Sparky and our firefighters might be educating the youngsters the necessary traditional hearth security suggestions, however may even give attention to battery security, like unplugging gadgets when they’re absolutely charged to forestall fires.”
Different battery suggestions:
- Search for a stamp from a nationally acknowledged battery testing lab.
- Cost gadgets safely and at all times use the cable that got here with the product.
- Recycle batteries responsibly. Recycling batteries helps the atmosphere, and the supplies within the batteries could be reused.
For extra details about Hearth Prevention Week, go to www.fpw.org. For extra data on MCFR, go to www.monroecounty-fl.gov/firerescue.
